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Inside Welcome to PCN #74
“American anthropol-
PAGE 2 ogy’s penchant for call-
ing various antelope and
What makes ar- similar animals in U.S.
chaeology science? rock art simply ‘stylized’
versions of big-horn
Tom Baldwin sheep just because they
haven’t found any con-
PAGE 3 veniently-dated ‘fossil
remains’ nearby is not
Ice Age industry: good science. That’s
why I say a big part of
Essay 2 —Focus Clovis-age wrench, Arizona
the evidence that cer-
upon artifacts made
tain animals lived in the
of bone SW U.S. surely needs to
come from rock art.”
Richard Michael Gramly Engineer, Ray Urbaniak, Dr. Richard Michael
continues to challenge Gramly, PhD, one of the
PAGE 7 Eurocentric ideas which have foremost Clovis experts
long regarded prehistoric and former Leakey family
Member news and Native American artistic and associate presents Part 2
other info documentary skills inferior of his enlightening series
to those of the regularly on Clovis industry prov-
promoted European cultures. ing the famous ancient
Patricio Bustamante,
See Urbaniak p.8. culture was far more
Juan Crocco, Regarding advanced and modern
Jacques Cinq-Mars and than typically portrayed.
Bluefish Caves, J. Feliks Chilean researchers in See Gramly p.3.
prehistoric culture,
Patricio Bustamante
PAGE 8 and Juan Crocco, Tom Baldwin reminds us
provide a detailed sum- American archaeologists
Ice age animals in mary of their upcoming need to become objective
Utah, Arizona, and series on the prehistory and dig deeper in order to
Nevada rock art: of astronomy. See Bustamante be scientific. The problems
Game-changing Native and Crocco p.7. start when they think they
American pictographs already know the answers.
and petroglyphs See Baldwin p.2.

Ray Urbaniak “Ms. Pringle’s sources

were not unaware of
these old sites. ...The
PAGE 12 reality is
that her
Collapse of standard sources
paradigm New World simply
prehistory Hueyatlaco, Mexico, choose not
250,000 years ago.
[Relevant Reprint] to share
this infor-
Virginia Steen-McIntyre Homo sapiens supposed mation
exodus from East Africa,
200,000 years ago.
with the
PAGE 14 public—an approach
used by those pres-
ently in control of
Myth of millennial The myth of millennial migrations
archaeology in the
migrations, Part 2: United States.”
The recent passing of Yukon archaeologist, Jacques Cinq-Mars—whose Bluefish
False maps Caves site at 24,000 years many are now calling the ‘oldest’ in the Americas—is a
[Relevant Reprint] reminder the mainstream anthropology community still simply ignores evidence –Virginia Steen-McIntyre,
conflicting with its beliefs. The community has suppressed Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre’s PhD, “The collapse of
John Feliks Hueyatlaco evidence for over 50 years that was dated at 250,000 years old by USGS standard paradigm New
and NASA geologists. The above map, typical of their standards, shows Hueyatlaco and World prehistory.” Relevant
other older sites simply omitted as they disprove the migration myth. It shows another Reprint from PCN #14.
credibility problem as it does not take thousands of years to walk the continents. In fact, See Steen-McIntyre p.12.
modern individuals have trekked around the earth in just 'four years.' See Feliks p.14 .
VOLUME 13, ISSUE 6 PAGE
What makes archaeology science?
By Tom Baldwin
Recently, I was reminded
how not getting all the infor-
mation makes it difficult to
“He said: know what’s really going on.
‘Scientists That inspired me to do a
are con- little editorializing for this
issue of the PCN. I ran into
stantly
a statement by an atomic
scientist named Don Lincoln
that I feel is worth repeat-
ing. He said:
“Scientists are constantly
double-checking their own
ideas, and even if they
don’t other scientists do it
for them. The goal is to
get at the truth. Indeed a
good scientist should
never hold firmly to their
double- own ideas and be open to
changing their viewpoint
checking
as more data comes in.
their own Slowly but surely scientific
ideas. … ideas are refined by this
The goal is process, getting closer and
closer to the truth.”
to get at
the truth.’” Now, would this newsletter’s
regular readers think the
above quote describes the
process or goal of most
American archaeologists
publishing on early peoples
in the Americas?
If you are a careful reader of
this publication your answer
will be a resounding “NO.”
I once heard of an archae-
ologist digging in North
Carolina who was advised
to stop digging when he
reached the bottom of the
Clovis Layer (about 11,000
BP) because there was
nothing to find any deeper
down. He would be wasting
his time and grant dollars
to dig further. Instead of
seeing for himself he was
being told to just take his
cue from the older and
wiser archaeologists.
PLEISTOCENE COALITION
2
It reminded scholarship
me of the leads.
story of a
group of What mod-
medieval ern North
monks try- American
ing to de- Photo by Magdalena Smolnicka and archaeology
made available free at unsplash.com. needs is a
termine
how many new gen-
teeth horses have. One eration of brave young sci-
monk said, entists, who are not afraid
to rock the boat, and that
“Let’s consult Aristotle, I say to their elders,
have a complete set of his
works in my library.” “You may be right, but I am
going to see for myself.”
Another said,
That’s how we will do as
“We came to this meeting Don Lincoln said, and get
on horseback, let’s go out closer and closer to the truth.
to the barn and count one
of the horse’s teeth.”
The teller of the story says
the second monk was ex-
pelled from the meeting
because that is not how
research was done in those TOM BALDWIN IS an award-winning
days. Well, it is not how author, educator, and amateur
archaeologist living in Utah; an
research on the peopling of early founder of the Pleistocene
North America is being Coalition; and writer and copy
done today either. editor for PCN the past 11 years.
Links to all of Baldwin’s over 40
So, that is how things go in articles in PCN, including many
North American archae- on Calico and associated Lake
ology too. It is the old Manix, can be found at:
hoary headed gray beards
http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
that are consulted on ques-
index.htm#tom_baldwin
tions about the peopling of
this continent. The new
generation are told,
“Don’t go and look for
yourself, just read the
writings of Dr. Knowitall.
He has already figured
everything out and will
set you straight.”
Archaeologist, Fred Bud-
inger, former Site Director
of the Calico Early Man Site,
once told me, “Go where the
science takes you.” He did
not say to go where current > Cont. on page 3
NEWS
VOLUME 13, ISSUE 6 PAGE
Ice Age industry: Essay 2—Focus upon artifacts made of bone
By Richard Michael Gramly, PhD Anthropology, FRAI*
Of the 150+ types of Pa-
laeo-American artifacts
“North described in the Guide to
the Palaeo-American Arti-
American ar- facts of North America
chaeologists (Gramly 2000, 3rd Edition)
only 15 are made of bone.
This number seems alto-
gether too small when we
consider the rich congeries
of bone artifacts on record
for archaeological sites and
cultures of Eurasia during
the Upper Palaeolithic and
immediately afterward (cf.
Bordes 1968; Clark 1952;
Lubine and Praslov 1987;
Langley et al. 2016; Ak-
hmetgaleyeva, Sergin and
Mashchenko n.d.; etc.).
… interested
in the initial It follows that North Ameri-
peopling of the can archaeologists who are
New World interested in the initial peo-
pling of the New World
should expect to discover
additional artifact types of
bone—provided that they
seek them in the right
places. New World bone
artifacts of early age, it
stands to reason, would
have close counterparts
among Old World assem-
blages—although there
will be exceptions, as the
rosters of hunted animal
species—many now ex-
tinct or extirpated—are
not identical for New and
Fig. 2. The Bowser Road
Old Worlds.
site report (Gramly 2017),
The list of bone artifacts,
364 pp., indexed.
as given in the Guide, is
as follows: 1) Awls; 2)
should expect Beads (tubular); 3) Beamers
to discover (for working hides); 4) Discs
(notched along edge); 5)
additional Fleshers (also for working
artifact types
hides); 6) Fluted point
of bone.” (unique specimen from Flor-
ida); 7) Inscribed bone frag-
ments (not further identifi-
able); 8) Needles; 9) Painted
* FRAI: Fellow of skulls (extinct bison); 10)
the Royal Anthro- Points (uni-beveled rods);
pology Institute 11) Punches; 12) Rods (bi-
beveled and uni-beveled);
13) Sockets; 14) ‘Tent’
pegs; and 15) Wrenches.
PLEISTOCENE COALITION
3
Some artifacts on this
short list are unique, as
for example, the so-called
‘shaft wrench’ made of
massive bone, perhaps
proboscidean, from the
Murray Springs site, Ari-
zona (Haynes and Huckell
2007: 110), Fig. 1.
The Remarkable Discov-
ery of the Bowser Road
site, Hudson River Region
Our knowledge about the
organic tool-kit of the
Palaeo-American era re-
ceived a huge boost with
the excavation and re-
porting (Gramly 2017) of
the Bowser Road site,
Orange County, south-
eastern New York State
(Fig. 2 and Fig. 3). Dis-
Fig. 1. Wrench of proboscidean bone
coveries at Bowser Road (presumed to be mammoth). Murray
led directly to re- Springs site, Arizona. This artifact is
examination of the pro- generally thought to be a wrench for
boscidean remains from straightening dart shafts and making
the Hiscock site, New York them true for accurate flight.
State, and study of mate- Length=260mm or 10 1/4”.
rials from the 1) Cedar
Fork Creek site, Morrow weights; 4) Creasers; 5) Cross-
County, Ohio, 2) Coats- members (for sleds); 6) Drag-
Hines-
Litchy
site,
south of
Nashville,
Tennes-
see, and
3) Lower
Blue Lick
site,
north-
central
Ken-
tucky.
The re-
sult was
signifi-
cant ex- Fig. 3. Excavations underway at Bowser Road, Orange
pansion County, New York, 2014.
of the list
of bone artifacts for prehistoric handles; 7) Handles (perhaps
cultures of the New World. for flaked stone end-scrapers);
8) Lamps; and 9) Stemmed
Since 2014, the following types points (a form of spear point).
of bone artifacts have been
added to the list, which has Each of these types will be
grown to 24 entries: 1) Atlatls; discussed and illustrated
2) Atlatl pegs; 3) Atlatl > Cont. on
> Cont. on page
page 4 3
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VOLUME 13, ISSUE 6 PAGE 4

Ice Age industry—artifacts made of bone (cont.)

below. All are new to science Clovis archaeological culture; to the author came to light at
for this early period in the however, until the Bowser the Hiscock site (Fig. 5). It
“Discoveries New World. Road fieldwork lay among a heap of offerings
at Bowser actual proof was accompanying the remains of
Directly caus- wanting. To be two Clovis people (hunters?).
ing this gain in sure, hindsight
knowledge was tells us that atlatl Although atlatls made of split
the 2014-2015 fragments had proboscidean rib are numer-
investigation of been unearthed ous at certain Palaeo-American
the Bowser at a few North sites, one wonders if they
Road site. American sites were, in fact, items of every-
What remained but they went day use? They may have
of the skeleton unrecognized. been reserved for ritually
belonging to a And, a technologi- slaying proboscideans and not
13,000 years- cal study of im- for bagging caribou, deer,
old, butchered pact fractures bison and other species of
bull mastodon, upon flaked stone lesser size that were unimpor-
the suite of Clovis points tant in socio-religious rituals.
stone artifacts already had sug-
used for its Atlatl Pegs
Fig. 4. Distal end of “Atlatl gested that atlatls
partitioning, a were used to These small, trimmed pieces
L” from Bowser Road show-
ing notching. Length of the large mass of propel them of bone (Fig. 6) appear to
complete Atlatl L ritually depos- (Hutchings 2014). have been affixed to the distal
(assembled from six frag- ited artifacts, end of atlatls made of probos-
ments)=56.5 cm or 22 1/4”. and the site We now realize cidean bone and engaged the
archive (notes, that atlatls were cupped end of a dart (javelin)
Road led di- photographs, and used to propel enabling it to be cast.
rectly to re- field drawings) lance-points made
were presented to of proboscidean Atlatl Weights
examination Fig. 6. Three atlatl
The Museum of bone into masto-
pegs made of split and The Bowser Road site yielded
Comparative shaved bone. Bowser dons (and mam-
a piece of proboscidean ivory
Zoology, Har- Road site. Length of moths) to either
cut, flaked, and polished into
vard University B=43 mm or 1 3/4”. side of the spine
what some believe is the pro-
and today are once the animal
file of a mastodon (Fig. 7).
available for had been brought
Six other examples of atlatl
inspection (by to earth by sev-
weights—a few of them zo-
appointment). ering its Achilles
omorphic—were exhumed at
tendon. These
A lengthy, the Hiscock site, western New
spear-throwers
heavily- York State. They were closely
were of a practical
illustrated site grouped and appear to have
length (22-24
report about accompanied human remains.
inches) and had
Bowser Road is been fashioned of Creasers
available to the split proboscidean
public from the rib. Split-rib tech- Creasers are indispensable
American Soci- nology is well- tools for manufacturing leather
ety for Ama- known for Eura- footgear for cold-weather. The
teur Archae- sian Gravettian Hiscock site furnished two
Fig. 5. Complete and un- ology, 455 Ste- culture, and it is specimens—one of ivory and
damaged atlatl made of split vens Street, the other of massive bone
no surprise that
proboscidean rib from Hiscock North Andover, (Fig. 8 on the following page).
site, Genesee County, NY.
early New World
MA 01845. Fig. 7. Ivory atlatl Plus, there was another frag-
Length=58 cm (approx. 23”). weight some believe inhabitants under-
Write for par- stood it as well. mentary, unfinished example
resembles a mastodon in
ticulars or from the Bowser Road site. All
of the pro- profile. Bowser Road site.
email an enquiry Length=78 mm or 3”.
The Bowser Road three specimens may have
boscidean directly to the So- site yielded 21 been purged from Clovis
remains ciety at the web address atlatls—many with a notched tool-kits during ritual acts
gramlyasaa@comcast.net. distal end (Fig. 4). All these after killing proboscideans.
from [sites in] specimens had been ritually
New York... Newly Recognized Bone broken into several pieces and Cross-members (for sleds)
Artifact Types
Ohio...Tenne deposited upon the anterior Unique to the Lower Blue Lick
ssee...and Atlatls backbone of the proboscidean site along the Licking River
quarry. The only complete in north-central Ohio are two
Kentucky.” The existence of atlatls had and unbroken atlatl made of
long been surmised for the proboscidean split-rib known > Cont. on page 5

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Ice Age industry—artifacts made of bone (cont.)

cleverly-made artifacts that Arctic tool-kits. It is no Other proboscidean bones,
“Such curi- appear to be supports for unit- surprise then that three besides ribs, were pressed
ous objects ing both sides of a sled. The examples of this tool type into service as handles. At
complete, un- were unearthed the Bowser
damaged exam- at the Bowser Road site the
ple measures 68 Road site. The vertebral proc-
cm long with largest exam- esses of pro-
worked projec- ple (not illus- boscideans
tions at its four trated) was cut were cut to size
corners (Fig. 9) from a stout and hollowed
for attaching it to proboscidean out as handles.
a framework. rib-section, 35
Also, a cylinder cm in length, Lamps
of cancellous and might even Lamps using fat
Fig. 8. Creasers of bone and ivory tissue, five cm in have been or oil as a fuel
from the Hiscock site. Length of diameter, has used by two are well known
longer creaser (ivory)=11.3 cm. been cut through workers. The for the Upper
the bone from smallest speci- Palaeolithic
may have end to end, providing passage men (Fig. 10) Fig. 12. Lamps from the Ural period in Eurasia,
been pre- for a stick or cord. The stick or was cleverly Mountain region, Russia. and new finds
cord may have fashioned from Both are made from bones are constantly
united both sides a basihyal bone of the wooly rhinoceros. ‘coming to
of a sled’s frame- (throat bone) of Shorter specimen is 15 cm light’ (Fig. 12).
work—making it a proboscidean. long. Photograph courtesy of
Prof. Jiri Chlacula, Brno. In Palaeo-
rigid. Judging by It has a natu-
their size alone, rally symmetri- America only
these spacers or cal, butterfly-like shape two lamps are on record. A
cross-members and a high polish resulting finished example is made
Fig. 9. Hypothesized cross-member
for a sled fashioned from proboscid- would have been from pro- from an altered
ean diaphyseal bone. Length=68 cm. well suited for longed usage. vertebra of a
Lower Blue Lick site, Kentucky. linking arrays of giant ground
heavy sled run- Handles sloth and was
ners cut from Proboscidean discovered in
proboscidean ribs were used the Stein-
tusk. Runners of to manufacture hatchee River,
this sort also durable han- Florida. It is
came to light dles, as follows: Fig. 13. Lamp made from shown in Fig. 13.
years ago at the the centrum vertebra of a An unfinished
1) cut off a giant ground sloth. Oil reser- example was
Lower Blue Lick handy section voir measures 40 mm X 49 cleverly made
site. by cleaving and mm X 21 mm (deep).
snapping; 2) from an as-
Drag-handles cending ramus
then, smooth the cut and
Handles made make it flat; 3) then, drill a of a mastodon. It was un-
of ivory, bone, pilot hole (with a stone drill- earthed at the Cedar Fork
and wood at- point?) to a depth of 35 mm, Creek site, Morrow County,
Fig. 10. Drag-handle made from a north-central Ohio
basihyal bone of a proboscidean, tached to cords and 4) finally, scoop out a
(Gramly, in press).
length=112 mm. Bowser Road Masto- and used for cavity using the pilot hole as
don site, New York. dragging car- a departure point. Stemmed points
casses of seal
ferred for rit- and other game still are an The resulting cavity was ideally Although this type is only a
important component of sized for receiving the talon of a variety of a long-known type
ual offerings. flaked stone end- (‘Points’), it is so unusual
scraper, which is a that it merits special atten-
common tool type tion here.
at many Palaeo-
American sites. Points used as projectile
points are well known
The heavy wear across Eurasia; however,
and mirror-like examples made of probos-
polish upon han- cidean split-rib belong to
dles attest to a sub-set that occurs ex-
prolonged usage clusively during the late
Fig. 11. Two handles made of proboscidean rib bone from the Cedar Fork of handles made Upper Palaeolithic Gravet-
Creek site, Morrow County, Ohio. These implements show wear and polish of ribs (Fig. 11).
resulting from prolonged service. > Cont. on page 6

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VOLUME 13, ISSUE 6 PAGE
Ice Age industry—artifacts made of bone (cont.)
tian culture (Fig. 14).
Stemmed points of split-rib,
on the other
hand, consti-
tute a variety
that is known
from only one
ancient site in
the New
World—the
Hiscock site,
Genesee
County, west-
ern New York
state. Other
Fig. 14. Gravettian points from southern examples, we
Germany made of proboscidean split-rib. may believe,
Photo courtesy of Dr. Susanne Munzel will be discov-
and used by permission only. ered eventu-
ally when
archaeologists
make it a habit
to explore
saline springs
for vestiges of
the Clovis
archaeological
culture.
Fig. 15. Small, intact shouldered point There are six
from the Hiscock site made of proboscidean examples of
split-rib. Length=108 mm. This point may
stemmed
have suffered breakage and re-tipping.
points among
the 44 points made from
proboscidean rib at the
Hiscock site (Gramly, in
press); however, only
two specimens are com-
plete enough for descrip-
tion and illustration here.
The first example is short
(Length = 108 mm) and
appears to have been bro-
ken and re-tipped at least
once (Fig. 15). The other
stemmed point is a goodly
size (Length = 24.5 cm)
and was recovered from a
heap of intact artifacts that
lay near Clovis-age human
remains (Harrod, in press).
In addition to being shoul-
dered or stemmed (Fig. 16),
the long point from His-
cock has been thinned at
its base for secure hafting.
Fig. 16. Drawings of both The intact, long point made
faces of an intact point from proboscidean split-rib
made from proboscidean at Hiscock would have been
split-rib from the Hiscock
a formidable weapon-tip,
site, length=24.5 cm. The as proboscidean rib bone is
specimen survived in a pris-
very strong and resistant to
tine state as it lay among a
heap of artifacts that accom- breakage. It was well-suited
panied a human burial. for going up against dan-
PLEISTOCENE COALITION
gerous quarry and penetrating
an animal’s inner vital organs.
Summary
It has long been argued that
artifacts made from organic
materials were a critical part of
Palaeo-American (Clovis,
etc.) cultures—most recently
summarized by Hemmings
(2004, 2010). The best dem-
onstration of the correctness
of this hypothesis is to add
fresh items to the inventory of
osseous artifact types. Adding
to the master inventory, as
I do here, proceeds directly
from standard archaeological
fieldwork and canvassing of
old museum collections, which
harbor unknown treasures.
Within this brief essay and
installments to follow, I hope
to convince skeptical readers
that there is much to learn
about early New World cul-
tures if we concentrate upon
organic artifacts and not just
limit our studies to artifacts
made of stone.
–To be continued in Part 3...
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RICHARD MICHAEL GRAMLY, PhD, is an
archaeologist with a BS in geology
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
and an AM and PhD in anthropology
(Harvard University). He has con-
ducted archaeological and geologi-
cal fieldwork in six countries and
30 states. His PhD dissertation
(1975) focused on Kenyan and
Tanzanian prehistory. Dr. Gramly
worked for six years in East Africa
two years of which he was an Exhib-
its Planner at the National Museum
of Kenya, Nairobi, under famed
anthropologist Richard Leakey,
being well-acquainted with the
entire Leakey family. Dr. Gramly
feels a great sense of gratitude
for the amateur archaeology
community and is the Organizer
of the American Society for Ama-
teur Archaeology which has been
active in his excavation work.
Links to all of Dr. Gramly’s arti-
cles in PCN can be found at:
http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
#richard-michael-gramly
VOLUME 13, ISSUE 6 PAGE
Member news and other info
Patricio Bustamante
(Chilean Society of History
Quick links to and Geography*) and
Juan Crocco (Altura Heri-
main articles
tage Foundation**) send an
in PCN #73: overview of their upcoming
PAGE 2 PCN series on the prehistory
of astronomy:
Paleolithic
‘outsider art’— Summary
Children arranging
imprints Despite advances in
the study of modern
Tom Baldwin astronomy, archaeo-
astronomy, ethno-
PAGE 3
astronomy and cul-
Ice Age industry: tural astronomy, no
Essay 1—stone tools explanation has been
found to where it
Richard Michael Gramly
originated from.
PAGE 7
Evidence shows that
Link to PCN #73
Follow-up to Quotes throughout the world
on suppression in human beings devel-
science and education oped various ways of
(with mini reprint) astronomical obser-
vation. This raises
PAGE 8
three questions:
Member news and 1.) Is astronomy
other info innate and inherent
Michael Winkler, to many species,
Joseph D. Smith, Kevin including humans?
Callaghan, Richard
2.) If not innate, did
Michael Gramly, J. Feliks
every culture de-
PCN reaches 1,434 velop their own and
pages this issue particular astronomy Link to PCN #72
independently?
List with Volume num-
bers for all 73 issues 3.) Was astronomy
as we know it in
PAGE 10 modern times de-
Follow-up to Calico veloped at some
preservation issue: BLM specific location and
effect on archaeological then spread through-
out the world with
sites and landscape
human migration?
John Feliks
We will examine the
PAGE 11 use of astronomy by
animals, the first re-
Saudi panel—Part 2
cords identified as Link to PCN #71
of the Pleiades
rock art saga representation of as-
tronomical observations, the
Ray Urbaniak and dispersion of similar sym-
Abdulrahman Albalawi bols such as in ostrich-like
birds to identify regions of the
PAGE 14 sky by distant populations.
Camelid rock art
The study of neurosciences
in the Grand Canyon
and in particular of pareidolia,
Ray Urbaniak apophenia and hierophany,
enables us to identify the
possible origin of constella-
tions and asterisms as mne-
monic resources, which al-
PLEISTOCENE COALITION
7
lowed humans to map the
sky in a simple way, order-
ing and giving coherence to
the cosmic cycle that relates
heaven and earth.
We suggest that the obser-
vation of events unfolding in
the sky together
with that of
natural forma- Fig. 1. One of the Bluefish caves with
tions in moun- evidence of early Americans c. 24,000 BP.
tain ranges, Photo permission: Ruth-Gotthardt,
isolated moun- © Government of Yukon, 2021.
tains or even
certain large Maverick archaeologist,
rocks, was regis- Jacques Cinq-Mars ,
tered in rock passed away this November 27.
art and in stories He was 79. Cinq-Mars was a
that evolved Canadian archaeologist best
into myths and known for his excavations at
legends. These, the Bluefish Caves site near
we propose, illus- northern Yukon’s Old Crow
trate the possible area 1977–87 (Fig. 1). One
origin of the astute forum commenter at
process that led Climate Etc. (judithcurry.com)
to the shaping described in 2017 how scien-
of current as- tists become non-mainstream.
tronomy that It fits very well the 50 years
began in the of suppression Pleistocene
remote past. Coalition founding member,
Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre,
Finally, the
identification of experienced from the main-
stream science community:
constellations
globally sug- “Jacques Cinq-Mars was
gests that they mainstream until he got the
date back to the report from the radiocarbon
Pleistocene and laboratory on the dates of the
spread through- material he had unearthed at
out the world the Blue caves. It is not the
along with hu- scientist or the hypothesis
man migrations, that challenges the paradigm
evolving into but the evidence.”
particular mani-
Cinq-Mars is only one of
festations with
‘many’ archaeologists and
cultural and geologists who have demon-
environmental strated the presence of hu-
characteristics. mans in the Americas well
It is our belief before Clovis. However, his
that the mne-
dates for the Bluefish Caves
monic system
site—c. 24,000 years—are
designed by humans in nowhere near what could be
early stages is still in force called the “oldest” evidence
today as a reference sys- of people in the Americas
tem in modern astronomy. though that is how it is com-
monly portrayed in popular
*Patricio Bustamante
(Sociedad Chilena de Historia science venues. Dr. Steen-
McIntyre gets that point of
y Geografía)
bad science across in her
reprint article this issue
**Juan Crocco (Fundación
Altura Patrimonio) (backed up by the Editor’s
reprint). Mainstream ar-
chaeology is simply not re-
porting the older sites. –jf
NEWS
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Ice Age animals in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada rock art

Game-changing Native American pictographs and petroglyphs
By Ray Urbaniak Engineer,
rock art researcher, and preservationist

This image-focused article

“Once readers represents the culmination
get past… of 20 years’ research on Ice Age
animals in Southwest U.S.
rock art. It is the first of my
efforts to present this body
of work in a compilation form.
My main purpose is to docu- Fig. 3. From PCN#34 (p. 7, Fig. 5) made more clear. Left: Petroglyph of a
ment the wide range of ani- large yak-like animal; Photo by Ray Urbaniak. Right: Photo of a living yak
mal depictions—including of (Eds. note: Image horizontally flipped for comparison.) Compare especially
‘extinct’ animals—recorded in the horns, ears, and fore and hind limbs. Image: Wikimedia Commons.
photographs either by me per-
sonally or by various friends Yak (Fig. 3)
and associates as I’ve pub-
PCN #34 http://
old school an- lished them in Pleistocene pleistocenecoali-
thropology... Coalition News since 2013. tion.com/newsletter/
march-april2015.pdf
Once readers get
past the engrained American cave lion
ideas of old school (Fig. 4)
anthropology—that
PCN #59 http://
ancient Native pleistocenecoali-
Americans were not tion.com/newsletter/
as skilled as ancient may-june2019.pdf
Europeans or that
they were less capa- Gomphothere
ble of representing (Fig. 5)
the animals they saw PCN #69 http://
in their day-to-day pleistocenecoali-
Fig. 4. From PCN #59, p.12, Fig. 7.
lives—they can view tion.com/newsletter/
january- American cave lion pictograph I discov-
the comparisons ered in a cave near my home compared
with an open mind. february2021.pdf
with Asiatic lion (Wikimedia Commons).
Importantly, this I have made it a pri-
collection includes ority to photograph
animals rarely if ever rock art images of
depicted in rock art Ice Age animals now
Fig. 1. From PCN #69 (p.11, Fig.1). extinct or that are
including such as the
Top: Apparent Saiga antelope no longer living in
rock art pictograph, Death Valley, CA. American lion and
cheetah, peccary, this SW U.S. region
Photo by Jennifer Hatcher. Bottom:
Saiga antelope, etc. since the end of the
Saiga antelope Wikimedia Commons.
I encourage readers Ice Age. Most of
to let go of their long these species I have
time resistance to documented by
the idea of uniquely way of multiple
skilled ancient Na- examples recording
tive American rock far too many to be
artists. I hope after explained away as
all these years the coincidences that
skeptical reader just so happen to
will begin to see look like the extinct
Fig. 2. From PCN #69 (p.11, Fig.2). animals. Fig. 5. From PCN #69 (p.16, Figs. 1–2).
that ancient Native Top: Pictograph by a likely Paleolithic artist of
Apparent Saiga antelope picto-
Americans were From the time I an apparent extinct gomphothere discovered
graph; Grand Canyon rock shelter.
Photo: Jennifer Hatcher.
very capable artists began my research in the same undisclosed SW Utah cave where
and documentarians. and writing about I discovered the American cave lion (Fig. 4).
Photo Ray Urbaniak. Bottom: Recreation
they can view Saiga antelope (Figs. 1–2) these animals I
of New World gomphothere, Cuvieronius,
the compari- have provided evi- by a modern artist, Wikimedia Commons.
PCN #69 http:// dence for more than
sons with an pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/ 29 different types! This article
open mind.” january-february2021.pdf#page=11
shows a few selected examples. > Cont. on page 9

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Game-changing Native American rock art (cont.)

Five different species of Note: Fig. 7 represents a Diminutive pronghorn
extinct pronghorn antelope well-established group for (Fig. 10)
which I have a great
many other examples.
See, for instance the
following and many oth-
ers:
PCN #47 http://
pleistocenecoalition.com/
newsletter/may-june2017.pdf
Four horns (Fig. 8)
Fig. 10. Prior unpublished petro-
PCN #52 http:// glyph image of proposed diminu-
Fig. 6. Petroglyph image of Fig. 7. From PCN #34, p. 8,
pleistocenecoalition.com/ tive pronghorn or Capromeryx.
an extinct straight-horned Fig. 4. Extinct pronghorn
newsletter/march- Photo: Ray Urbaniak.
pronghorn on a 30’-high with long curved horns. I
april2018.pdf
SW Utah panel referenced have documented a great many
in PCN #32, p. 9, Fig. 1. other examples of this particu- Stockoceros is a very For other examples of what
B&W photo: Ray Urbaniak. lar form. Photo: Ray Urbaniak. are known to be at least
distinctive pronghorn
which is extremely difficult 14 different species of ex-
Long straight horns (Fig. 6) tinct pronghorn—known by
“Most of to mistake. I believe this is
PCN #32 http:// true even in rock art as can way of the fossil record—to
these spe- pleistocenecoalition.com/ have lived on the plains of
be seen in Fig. 8. American
cies I have newsletter/november-
anthropology’s penchant North America see my arti-
documented december2014.pdf cle, titled, “Earliest maize
for calling various antelope
by way of Long curved horns (Fig. 7) and similar animals in rock depicted in southern Utah
art simply “stylized” versions petroglyph, Part 2: Antiq-
multiple ex- PCN #34 http://
uity-corroborating images”
pleistocenecoalition.com/ of big-horn sheep just be-
amples.” newsletter/march-april2015.pdf cause they haven’t found in PCN #52, p. 19:
any conveniently-dated PCN #52 http://
‘fossil remains’ nearby is pleistocenecoalition.com/
not good science. That’s newsletter/march-april2018.pdf
why I say a big part of the
evidence that
certain animals
lived in the SW
U.S.Fig.surely
3. Left: Very complex square petroglyph at JNU campus from
needs Vividtocreations
come by early man, Part 2 (PCN #40, March-April 2016).
fromMy rock
focusart.
is on the lower right corner showing trapezoids and trian-
Fig. 3. Petroglyph gles.Fig.
from
However, Photo
2 by R.S. Thakur. Right: Slightly different modern exam-
most
rotated to emphasizeple shows
its
paleontologists the same trapezoids and triangles as the petroglyph. From
symmetry. One initial math
idea page “Count the number of triangles and squares in the follow-
mylittle
know very
ing figure.” Toppr—Better Learning for Better Results; toppr.com.
colleagues and I considered
about rock art
(see Part 1) was that
arrangements
Fig. 8. From PCN #52, p.21, Fig. 9. Comparison between especially
the like this might if they
extinct pronghorn Stockoceros (Left) and a 4-horned represent areboards.’
Utah ‘game mainstream Fig. 11. From PCN#47, p12, Fig.1. Left: Pro-
petroglyph (Right). Stockoceros is believed to haveWhether yes or as
gone extinct no,Ithere
haveisper-a posed Siberian ibex depiction. Photo credit:
‘12,000 years ago.’ If the I.D. is correct it furtherwell-documented
supports a association
sonally experi- Dinosaur National Monument website Jones
very old date for these panels. Stockoceros skeleton between boardenced.
image: games That,
and and Hole Trail. Right: Example of a living Sibe-
mathematics. Whoever created
Wikimedia Commons. Petroglyph photo: Ray Urbaniak. rian ibex. Notice the ridged horns in each.
their strict ad-
this would certainly have had a
herence
sense of mathematics. It is
to other
beliefs that
perhaps not surprising despite the evi- Siberian Ibex (Fig. 11)
dence
India also invented the from
most rock art is
part of how they continue
famous board game—Chess. PCN #47 http://
Photo: Raghubir toS.be Thakur.
so wrong about the pleistocenecoalition.com/
newsletter/may-june2017.pdf
prehistory of the Ameri-
cas and would rather criti- PCN #72 http://
cize or ignore such evi- pleistocenecoalition.com/
dence rather than con- newsletter/july-august2021.pdf
sider it important.
Llama (Figs. 12–13)
Fig. 9. From PCN #52, p.19, Fig. 2. Left: Extinct pronghorn, Branched horns facing forward
PCN #73 http://
Ramoceros osborni, believed extinct 14.5 million years. It was (Fig. 9) pleistocenecoalition.com/
collected in 1901 by Barnum Brown in Cedar Creek, Colorado;
PCN #52 http:// newsletter/september-
Wikimedia Commons. Middle: Another extinct pronghorn. Notice
pleistocenecoalition.com/ october2021.pdf
direction of prongs in each—matching the petroglyph animal.
Right: ‘Maize panel’ petroglyph; Photo: Ray Urbaniak. newsletter/march-april2018.pdf
> Cont. on page 10

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Game-changing Native American rock art (cont.)

Tusk-less mammoths
(Figs. 17–18)
PCN #67 http://
pleistocenecoalition.com/
newsletter/september-
october2020.pdf)

PCN #48 http://

pleistocenecoalition.com/
newsletter/july- Fig.18. From PCN #67, p.17, Fig. 4. Hiker,
august2017.pdf Shivaya Coyote Varlet Castle, took this
Fig. 12. From PCN #73, p. 14, Fig. 1. Photo (detail) of an unusual picture in Dinosaur National Monument
rock art pictograph apparently depicting a camelid such as a llama. PCN #41 http:// (Colorado) and posted it on Facebook with
Grand Canyon, AZ, by rock art photographer Jennifer Hatcher. pleistocenecoalition.com/ the title, “Goat and a Circus Elephant.”
newsletter/may- When reproducing it in PCN #41, courtesy
june2016.pdf of the photographer, I presumed all mam-
moths or mastodons had tusks and that
Peccary (Fig. 19) the painter may have intended the rock
inclusions to represent them. Here, with
PCN #59 http://
aid of the Ed’s crop, the inclusions are
pleistocenecoalition.com/
out of the picture and the creature next
newsletter/may-
to the long-horned animal appears very
june2019.pdf
much to be a tusk-less mammoth.
Two varieties of peccary:
In David Meltzer’s book,
First Peoples in a New
Fig. 13. From PCN #62, p. 13, Fig. 7. Left: Petroglyph depicting
World, 2nd Ed., p. 47,
an extinct llama seems best interpretation of this left side of a he speaks of “multiple
remarkable SW Utah petroglyph panel 30’ above the ground. genera of peccaries.”
Ray Urbaniak. Right: Modern living llama: Public domain.
Extinct horses (Fig. 20)
PCN #62 PCN #59 http://
http:// pleistocenecoalition.com/
pleistocenecoa- newsletter/may-june2019.pdf
lition.com/
newsletter/
november-
Utah petroglyph Camel track decem- On the following page:
ber2019.pdf
Elk or stag moose
Camelops (Fig. 21)
tracks
PCN #52 http://
(Fig. 16) pleistocenecoalition.com/ Fig. 19. From PCN #59, p. 11, Fig. 3.
Utah petroglyph Camel track newsletter/march-april2018.pdf Top: Possible peccary rock art image
PCN #70
Fig. 16. From PCN #70, p.13, Fig. 4. Top- http:// Grand Canyon (Photo, Jennifer Hatcher).
Arabian oryx [possible] Bottom: African bush pig with long
Left: Proposed Utah Camelops track pleistocenecoa-
lition.com/ (Fig. 22) ears which, when running, might
petroglyph. Top-Right: Camel footprint in
sand. Bottom-Left: Likely camel footprint newsletter/ resemble the image at top.
PCN #65 http://
petroglyph. Photo by rock art photographer, march- pleistocenecoalition.com/
Sue Reynolds. Bottom-Right: Modern-day april2021.pdf newsletter/may-june2020.pdf
camel track in Saudi Arabia.
American cheetah
(Fig. 23)
PCN #71 http://
pleistocenecoalition.com/
newsletter/may-june2021.pdf
_________________

I believe most of these

Fig. 20. From PCN #59, p. 12,
animals were depicted
Fig. 5. Horse-like animal from an
after the depicting indi- undisclosed cave site in Utah.
viduals lived with them Photo: Davis Hammond.
in this area, were re-
membered by individuals were passed down through
Fig. 17. From PCN #67, p. 16, Fig. 1. Left: Lightly-outlined who lived with them be- oral tradition and depicted
proposed mammoth petroglyph I discovered on a rock art panel fore they migrated across later on. There are far too
30’ up a rock face in SW Utah (photo by Ray Urbaniak) com- the land bridge/kelp high-
pared with Right: an Indian elephant (Wikimedia Commons). way, or the descriptions > Cont. on page 11

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Game-changing Native American rock art (cont.)

many images of the animals july-august2013.pdf PCN#52 March-April 2018
(pleistocenecoalition.com)
“There are to be just stylized depictions Giant short-faced bear

far too many of present day animals. PCN #53 http://

pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/
From paleontologist may-june2018.pdf RAY URBANIAK, engineer by pro-
interviews and Woolly rhinoceros fession, is a passionate amateur
presentations I’ve PCN #68 http:// archeologist with many years of
pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/ systematic field research in Na-
watched, as well as november-december2020.pdf tive American rock art. He has
from contacts
I’ve made (or Striped tail Head
attempted to
make), it ap-
pears to me
paleontologists
only care
about looking
at ‘bones’!
They won’t
even consider
augmenting Front paws
the paleon-
tological re-
cord or their Hind feet Striped and
understanding (bottom) speckled body
Fig. 21. From PCN #52, p.20, Fig. 4.
Top: Many-horned animal ren- of it with
dered underneath and to the viewer’s petroglyph
right of the proposed cob of the Maize and pictograph
panel compared with, Bottom: an evidence even Outstretched paws detail
extinct American stag moose; though it puts
Painting by Patrick Gully, Illinois flesh on the
State Museum Collections.
bones.
Whether this
images of is an unwritten law or
the animals something they were
to be just indoctrinated into in
school is
unclear.

Ed’s. Note:
Ray’s com-
pilation
article con-
tained many
more exam- Fig. 23. From PCN#71,p.16_Fig. 1. Top: Detail of photo recently taken in the
ples of Grand Canyon by rock art photographer Jennifer Hatcher. It appears to show a
Fig. 22. From PCN #65, p. 14, Fig. 8.
rarely- large speckled cat with striped tail/body, and outstretched paws chasing down a
Comparing the Utah petroglyph with a
depicted pronghorn which is clearly fleeing. Compare with, Bottom: Modern artist’s depiction
Saudi Arabian oryx glyph. Rock art of an extinct North American cheetah (Miracinonyx) hunting a pronghorn antelope
photo courtesy of ‫ﻧﻤﺤﺮ ﻻﺩﺏ ﻉ ﺻﺮ ﺍﻥ ﻻ‬ animals in
rock art, (Antilocapra americana) during the late Pleistocene; © Michael Rothman 1997;
especially Used with permission; Website: Rothman Natural Science Illustration (https://
stylized de- Native American rock art, www.rothmanillustration.com); image flipped for comparison to the rock art.
pictions of but there was not enough Contrary to a long-restricted reputation imposed by the anthropology community,
time to lay them out. We the documentary skills of early Native North American artists are, again, evident.
present day will add them in a follow-
animals.” ing article. Some of these other Young moose
written over 30 articles on many
animals include: topics with original rock art pho-
PCN #63 (May-June 2018) tography for PCN. All of Urba-
Giant ground sloth (pleistocenecoalition.com)
niak’s PCN articles can be found
PCN #62 http:// Extinct pronghorn at the following link:
pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/
PCN #26 http://
november-december2019.pdf http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/
Caribou/moose (possible) november-december2013.pdf index.htm#ray_urbaniak
PCN #59 http:// Early bison
pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/
PCN #60 http://
may-june2019.pdf
pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/
Mountain goat july-august2019.pdf
PCN #24 http:// Tibetan antelope (possible)
pleistocenecoalition.com/newsletter/

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Relevant Reprint, Revisiting PCN #14, November-December 2011*

The collapse of standard paradigm New World prehistory
By Virginia Steen-McIntyre, PhD
Since the last issue of the correspondence, etc., relat- Charles W. and VanLand-
*Eds. Note: This newsletter we've had quite ing to the Mexican saga that ingham, Sam L. 2011.
2001 item by Dr. a bit of good ‘New World’ news, you think may be of current The stratigraphic debate at
Virginia Steen- some not-so-good news— or historical value can find a Hueyatlaco, Valsequillo, Mexico.
repository for Palaeontologia Electronica 14
them. (3):44A:26p; palaeo-
electronica.org/2011_3/27_malde/
Contact Kristine index.html
Newly-forming picture of the ancient New World as
Haglund, Archi-
proposed by the Pleistocene Coalition—hidden from the The fact that the paper has
vist and Chair,
public by the old-school mainstream science community. finally been published is none
Bailey Library
too soon. Hopefully, it will
and Archives,
help modify the current
DMNS for more
stance taken by the estab-
information
lishment as to when the first
(<kris.haglund
peoples appeared in the
@dmns.org>, W
Americas. We cannot hope to
303.370.8353,
Caltrans, 300,000 BP
have any accurate impres-
F 303.331.6492).
Topper, 50,000 BP sion of the story if evidence
Kris writes that
Calico, 200,000 BP
is withheld (see below.)
your files can be
restricted for a ‘Not so good’ news
Hueyatlaco/Valsequillo
250-400,000 BP
finite period of This takes the form of a recent
time that you article in the November 2011
Possible 1.3 million- can specify. issue of Scientific American
year old sites—the titled, “The First Americans:
Amomolic lake beds Good news #2
trailblazers arrived far earlier
After a struggle than previously thought.”
lasting almost
How early?
five years the
Malde et al pa- Gasp! Perhaps 15,000 years
per on the strati- ago, or even earlier!
graphic debate Obviously science writer
at Hueyatlaco is Heather Pringle's information
finally online. sources did not alert her to
(See the January- the Pleistocene Coalition News
February 2011 newsletter (See Fig. 1).
issue of Pleisto- Missing from the purportedly
cene Coalition current Scientific American
Monte Verde, 33,000 BP News, “Blocking report is any mention of
data: At the the following evidence:
Fig. 1. Beginning with the preservation work of Virginia Steen- editor's desk,”
• 200,000-year old or
McIntyre, Sam VanLandingham, Chuck Naeser, Jim Bischoff, Michael for the back-
older Calico site as originally
Cremo, Chris Hardaker, and others, the oldest sites in the Americas are ground informa-
gradually becoming known to the public—a completely different picture tion. See also the under the direction of Louis
of prehistoric reality. Paulette Steeves of Binghampton University, New Leakey, (Upholding the old
July-August 2011
York, is also adding a great many more sites to our proposed revised dates for Calico, PCN Sep-
issue article of
picture which are older than Clovis including sites known only to Native tember-October, 2011);
Americans and First Nations people of Canada. Map layout, jf. PCN titled, “The
footprints that • 250,000-yr. old or
McIntyre is repro- were not,” for a color version older Hueyatlaco/
though not unexpected based Valsequillo sites (many
duced due to current of Malde’s geologic map and
news items regard- on the state of American PCN articles, especially
the addendum to the original
ing the “earliest” anthropology—and some since May-June 2011);
manuscript which was cut
peopling of the rather awesome news! –VSM
from the final version of the • 300,000-year old Na-
Americas. It features
Good news #1 paper because of length.) tional City/Caltrans site
Virginia’s knowledge
and experience with The Denver Museum of Nature Here is the citation and from the San Diego area
suppression of the and Science (DMNS) has gra- (In their own words: Cal-
actual “oldest” evi-
access link for the Malde
ciously consented to archive et al paper: trans site, PCN January-
dence by the Ameri-
miscellaneous Hueyatlaco/ February 2010);
can anthropology
community. Valsequillo files. That means Malde, Harold E., Steen-
that those of you who have McIntyre, Virginia, Naeser, > Cont. on page 13

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Collapse of standard paradigm New World prehistory (cont.)

• classic Homo erectus magnetic polarity. That Mexico, in 1966. Her story of
partial skull found in the makes the El Horno archaeo- suppression—now well-known in
Guadalajara area (In their logical site older than 1.3 the science community—was
first brought to public attention
own words, PCN Novem- million years! These people in Michael Cremo’s and Richard
ber-December issue, 2009); would be comparable in age Thompson’s classic tome, For-
to the well known Homo erec- bidden Archeology, which was
• 33,000-year old or older tus fossils of Africa, Asia, and followed by a central appear-
component at the Monte Europe. (For skull evidence of ance in the NBC special, Myste-
Verde site (The Abomination H. erectus in Mexico, see rious Origins of Man in 1996,
of Calico, Part 3, PCN Novem- newsletter, Nov-Dec 2009, hosted by Charlton Heston. The
“Not much ber-December issue, 2010.) program was aired twice on NBC
In their own words, p.3.)
we can do with mainstream scientists at-
It must be clarified that Ms. tempting to block it.
about such To read more about the El
Pringle’s sources were not Horno site, see Cynthia Ir-
ingrained All of Virginia’s articles in PCN can
unaware of these old sites. win-Williams’ 1962 progress be accessed directly at the follow-
prejudice In fact, one of the archaeolo- report to the INAH. For a copy ing link:
except to gists mentioned in the report of the text, see my Pleistocene http://
even directed the work at
continue as Coalition webpage, near www.pleistocenecoalition.com/
Hueyatlaco for a season. The the bottom. #virginia_steen_mcintyre
we have: reality is that her sources sim-
uncover ply choose not to share this Not only are the reservoir
the facts information with the public— sites at Valsequillo 20-30
an approach used by those times older than the estab-
and print
presently in control of archae- lishment would like them to
them in the ology in the United States. be (Hueyatlaco), one (El
Pleistocene Horno) is 100 times older!
Not much we can do about More on this very exciting
Coalition such ingrained prejudice discovery in a future issue.
News except to continue as we
newsletter have: uncover the facts and
so that you print them in the Pleistocene
Coalition News newsletter so
have a that you have a means to be
VIRGINIA STEEN-MCINTYRE, PhD, is
a tephrochronologist (volcanic
means to informed! ash specialist) involved in pre-
be in- serving and publishing the Pa-
Awesome News!
formed!” laeolithic evidence from Valse-
On November 7, I had a quillo since
Fig. 3.the late Very
Left: 1960s. Her square petroglyph at JNU campus from
complex
story first came to public atten-
chance to sit down and Vivid creations by early man, Part 2 (PCN #40, March-April 2016).
tion in MyMichael
focusCremo’s
is on theand Rich-
lower right corner showing trapezoids and trian-
study—really study—the ard Thompson’s book, Forbidden
Malde geologic map Fig.
(see3. Petroglyph gles.Fig.
from Photo
2 by R.S. Thakur. Right: Slightly different modern exam-
Archeology (1993),
ple shows and in the
the same trapezoids and triangles as the petroglyph. From
rotated to emphasize its
PCN newsletter, July-August Bill Cote television special, Mys-
symmetry. One initialmath idea page
my “Count the number of triangles and squares in the follow-
2011 issue, Malde article for terious ing
Origins
colleagues and I considered
of Man,
figure.” hosted by Learning for Better Results; toppr.com.
Toppr—Better
a color version.) Charleton Heston (1996).
(see Part 1) was that
arrangements like this might
I came away numb. How represent ‘game boards.’
often had I looked atWhether
that yes or no, there is a
map over the decades, even
well-documented association
colored several copies, and board
between gamesBIO
Updated and (from PCN #72)
missed it! mathematics. Whoever created strokes
after Virginia’s
this would certainly have had a
Hal had mapped the Valse- VIRGINIA STEEN
sense of mathematics. It is-MCINTYRE, PhD, is a
quillo Reservoir site ofperhaps
El not volcanic
surprising ashthat
specialist and founding
India also member
invented of most
the the Pleistocene Coali-
Horno, to the west of
famous boardtion. Before the onset of her
game—Chess.
Hueyatlaco, as occurring in major
Photo: Raghubir S. health
Thakur. problems, including
the unit he named the Amo- two debilitating strokes, Virginia
moloc lake beds. was the lead copy editor and
scientific consultant for Pleisto-
This unit occurs beneath the cene Coalition News, as well as a
Xalnene tuff. In other words, prolific author writing over 80
this means that the Amomo- articles. She worked on dating
loc lake beds are older than Hueyatlaco with NASA’s moon
the Xalnene tuff. core specialist, archaeologist Ro-
ald Fryxell, while he was analyz-
The Xalnene tuff has recently ing soils from all the Apollo
been dated at 1.3 million moon landings. Virginia began
her lifelong association with the
years old and has a reverse
Hueyatlaco early man site,

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Relevant Reprint from PCN #57, January-February 2019, in support of Virginia Steen-McIntyre and objective science

The myth of millennial migrations, Part 2

False maps: How mainstream science simply omits crucial
archaeological sites it doesn’t want the public to know about
By John Feliks Periodic Table—with selected
In the field of anthropol- elements deleted
Link to Part 1 ogy there is an ongoing
credibility problem of
“Unlike nor- concealing already known
mal cumula- facts about early human
tive science intelligence and migrations.
such as the Unlike normal cumulative
science such as gave us the
Periodic Ta- Periodic Table of the Ele-
ble of the ments, early human migra-
Elements ... tion maps produced within
early human this community clearly reflect
migration the bias and self-interest of
the researchers or organi-
maps pro- Fig. 1. The disconcerting effect if chemistry’s Periodic Table of the Elements is
zations producing them.
duced within treated with the rigor standards of early human migration maps. The normal
Anthropology wants so much Periodic Table presents collectively-achieved knowledge of all known ele-
this commu-
to have its own Periodic Table ments whereas anthropology promotes only biases. Already-known facts of
nity clearly to prove it really is a science. early sites that conflict with the ideas promoted are simply omitted—such as
reflect the seen in Fig. 2 (see VanLandingham on Hueyatlaco (PCN #11, May-June 2011).
However, corruption in its
bias and journals and institutions at the
To help visualize just how bad does each time it tries to
self-interest very top and the no-holds-
this problem is, science afi- trick the public with a new
of the re- barred self-interest of com-
cionados could never imag- biased millennial migration
petitive researchers among
searchers or whom non-citation of already
ine a chemistry ethic where map (e.g., Fig. 2).
organiza- every publication of the Peri-
established facts, misappro- Unfortunately, the field is rife
tions pro- odic Table featured startling
priation, and unfounded with researchers and organi-
gaps or selectively-omitted
ducing denigration makes this liter- zations producing biased maps.
elements (Fig. 1). But this is
them.” ally impossible without top- They are not interested in pre-
exactly what anthropology
down reform in the field. senting the normal accumula-

Hueyatlaco, Mexico,
250,000 years ago.

Homo sapiens supposed

exodus from East Africa,
200,000 years ago.

Fig. 2. Standard confirmation-biased mainstream propaganda map (Wikimedia Commons) produced to lead the public into believing it
took early humans hundreds of thousands of years to migrate from Africa to the Americas. The omitted Hueyatlaco problem is superim-
posed. Compare this map with the “4” years it actually takes healthy people to walk around the entire globe. Biased anthropology maps
simply delete the well-documented site of Hueyatlaco despite its dating by several eminent geologists from the USGS, NASA’s Apollo
moon core specialist, and an internationally-renowned diatomist. The map makes no mention of the site and its dating shows why.

> Cont. on page 15

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The myth of millennial migrations, Part 2: False maps (cont.)
tion of all discoveries and
facts whereby inquisitive
“The cru- readers can have confidence
cial part ... in the field’s integrity. Without
Caltrans, 300,000 BP
Topper, 50,000 BP
Calico, 200,000 BP
Hueyatlaco/Valsequillo
250-400,000 BP
Possible 1.3 million-
year old sites—the
Amomolic lake beds
Monte Verde, 33,000 BP
Fig. 3. Map from The collapse of standard paradigm New
World prehistory (PCN #14, Nov-Dec 2011) by Pleistocene
Coalition founding member, Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre,
The article included her response to a propaganda piece
promoting false claims published in Scientific American
regarding the so-called “First” Americans as it “omitted”
all of the actual earliest American sites. Layout jf.
is trust that all evidence being honestly
the science reported no one can come to
any informed conclusions. The
community
crucial part for anyone at-
is giving tempting to do so is trust
one all the
that the science community
facts and is is giving one all the facts and
is not withholding information.
not with-
holding in- In PCN #14, Nov-Dec 2011,
formation.” Pleistocene Coalition founding
member, Dr. Virginia Steen-
McIntyre, PhD, wrote an
overview article called, The
collapse of standard para-
digm New World prehistory.
It included her response to
yet another frustrating
propaganda piece—the type
of which she had become
accustomed to over the prior
40 years—this one published
in Scientific American re-
garding the so-called “earliest”
Americans. As she has repeat-
edly experienced, the actual
“earliest” evidence, Hueyatlaco
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and Valsequillo sites in Mexico direction of Louis Leakey
dated c. 250,000 years, was (Upholding the old dates for Calico,
not even mentioned. The arti- [By Dr. Jim Bischoff, famed USGS
geochemist] PCN Sept-Oct 2011);
cle excluded “all” truly ancient
sites in the Americas listing • 250,000-yr. old or older
Hueyatlaco/Valsequillo sites
only those within a mere cou-
(many PCN
ple dozen millennia. articles, es-
Fig. 3 shows the pecially since
PCN map created May-June
2011);
for her critique
showing crucial sites • 300,000-
and dates omitted year old
National City/
in the Scientific
Caltrans site
American article. from the San
It includes Valse- Diego area
quillo/Hueyatlaco Hueyatlaco/ (In their own
Valsequillo
at 250,000 years, 250,000 BP simply
words: Cal-
Calico at 200,000 omitted from this 2017 trans site, PCN
years (excavated by “earliest Americans” Jan-Feb 2010);
migration map. • Classic
famed anthropologist
Dr. Louis B. Leakey), Homo erec-
Fig. 4. This false map repro- tus partial
Caltrans—originally duced by Smithsonian maga- skull found
dated 300,000 years zine, March 8, 2017 is titled in the Gua-
and still so when PCN “Major sites that disprove the dalajara area
published the sup- Clovis-first model.” It is by the (In their own
pressed site 17 years same author critiqued by Virginia words, PCN
for similar omissions in Scientific Nov-Dec
after its discovery
American six years prior. As 2009);
(finally published always with Smithsonian,
after seven years of AAAS’ journal Science, and the • 33,000-
PCN and “25 years” UK’s Nature, these publications year old or
after its discovery allow low-academic-integrity older compo-
anthropology in context with nent at the
but renamed Cerutti
higher standards for other Monte Verde
Mastodon and dated site (The
sciences. Notice again that the
only 130,000 years). Abomination
new migration map simply omits
Ironically, a bizarre 250,000-year old Hueyatlaco. of Calico,
reiteration of the Part 3, PCN
Nov-Dec 2010)
same omissions was published
in Smithsonian magazine online It must be clarified that Ms.
Pringle’s sources were not
March 8, 2017—by the same
author (Fig. 4). The article unaware of these old sites. In
featured another false map with fact, one of the archaeologists
Hueyatlaco, Calico, and Caltrans mentioned in the report even
omitted. Here are her comments directed the work at Hueyat-
laco for a season. The reality
on the original article and author:
is that her sources simply
“‘Not so good’ news …takes the
form of a recent article in the
choose not to share this in-
formation with the public—an
November 2011 issue of Scien-
approach used by those pres-
tific American titled, ‘The First
ently in control of archae-
Americans: trailblazers arrived
ology in the United States.
far earlier than previously
thought.’ How early? Gasp! Not much we can do about such
Perhaps 15,000 years ago, or ingrained prejudice except to
even earlier! Obviously science continue as we have: uncover
writer Heather Pringle’s infor- the facts and print them in
mation sources did not alert her the Pleistocene Coalition News
to the Pleistocene Coalition News newsletter so that you have
newsletter [See Fig. 4 (Virginia’s a means to be informed!”
orig. Fig. 1)]. Missing from the The fact that the same false
purportedly current Scientific map claims about the earliest
American report is any men- Americans Virginia called out
tion of the following evidence: years ago is still spread today
• 200,000-year old or older does not support the idea of
Calico site as originally under the anthropology as a science.
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Prehistory is about to change
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